Dynamic data analysis and data mining for prediction of clinical stability

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2009:150:590-4.

Abstract

This work studies the impact of using dynamic information as features in a machine learning algorithm for the prediction task of classifying critically ill patients in two classes according to the time they need to reach a stable state after coronary bypass surgery: less or more than nine hours. On the basis of five physiological variables different dynamic features were extracted. These sets of features served subsequently as inputs for a Gaussian process and the prediction results were compared with the case where only admission data was used for the classification. The dynamic features, especially the cepstral coefficients (aROC: 0.749, Brier score: 0.206), resulted in higher performances when compared to static admission data (aROC: 0.547, Brier score: 0.247). In all cases, the Gaussian process classifier outperformed logistic regression.

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Belgium
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Information Storage and Retrieval*
  • Intensive Care Units
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Normal Distribution
  • Statistics as Topic / methods*
  • Ventilator Weaning / statistics & numerical data